Richard Dawkins

In 1976, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins wrote in The Selfish Gene, “If you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature.'

Richard Dawkins and George C. Williams , other biologists and philosophers

Besides Richard Dawkins and George C. Williams, other biologists and philosophers have expanded and refined the selfish-gene theory, such as John Maynard Smith, George R. Price, Robert Trivers, David Haig, Helena Cronin, David Hull, Philip Kitcher, and Daniel C. Dennett.

Mr Dawkins

I enjoyed the Mozart and Shelley , of course the genes of those early hominids still exist in our cells , that’s why Mr Dawkins wrote the selfish gene and considered calling our cells the immortal gene .

Robert Trivers

This fits in in an interesting way with Richard Dawkins’s book because at the same time Robert Trivers was writing The Selfish Gene for a popular audience, Robert Boyd and Pete Richerson, the two authors of Not by Genes Alone, had begun to hammer away at building mathematical models of cultural evolution.

and how selfishness is integral to the survival of a species of Darwinism

In his popular book, “The Selfish Gene”, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins describes in length the concepts of Darwinism and how selfishness is integral to the survival of a species.

Charles Darwin

The Selfish Gene is a reformulation of the theory of natural selection developed by Charles Darwin.

by Dawkins

The phrase 'selfish gene' in the title of the book was coined by Dawkins as a provocative way of expressing the gene-centric view of evolution, which holds that evolution is best viewed as acting on genes, and that selection at the level of organisms or populations almost never overrides selection on genes.

Richard Brodie’s book 'Virus of the Mind: , The New Science of the Meme'that taught me the theory of memetics

Although Richard Dawkins is credited with the first publication of the concept of the meme in Richard Dawkins's book 'The Selfish Gene', The Selfish Gene was Richard Brodie’s book 'Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme', that taught me the theory of memetics.

1 2 Dawkins, Richard (1989),

1 2 Dawkins, Richard (1989), The Selfish Gene (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 192, ISBN 0-19-286092-5, We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. '

Richard Dawson

In 1976 Richard Dawson penned The Selfish Gene which expounded on a popular theory in evolution theory saying that genes whose attributes successfully promote their own duplication will be selected in favor of their competitors.

Dawkins,

Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, and most recently, The God Delusion, is adored by militant atheists around the world.

Prof Dawkins, professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University,

Prof Dawkins, professor for the public understanding of science at Oxford University, is author of books including the Selfish Gene, the Blind Watchmaker and the God Delusion.

Plato

And Plato wrote the Selfish Gene, which is once more just theoretical waffle, with no visible real world applications or benefits.

John Maynard Smith

“If you are not interested in how evolution came about, and cannot conceive how anyone could be seriously concerned about anything other than human affairs, then do not read human affairs: human affairs will only make you needlessly angry,” wrote John Maynard Smith about The Selfish Gene.

a then little-known young lecturer in zoology at Oxford University

First published in 1976, aimed at a general audience and written by a then little-known young lecturer in zoology at Oxford University, The Selfish Gene rapidly became highly influential.

Dawkins's greatest contributions

Dawkins' most popular writing may be on atheism and the critique of religion, but I think Dawkins's greatest contributions were really found in this book plus The Selfish Gene.

one of Neil Shubin's first publications and his first publications

The Selfish Gene is one of Neil Shubin's first publications and his first publications still holds up to this day.

Phil Torres

Dawkins is an old fuddy-duddy in the extreme, but Phil Torres did write The Selfish Gene, which is an excellent book.

in Aleksandra Saška Gruden's book The Selfish Gene

The term was coined by an English ethnologist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in Aleksandra Saška Gruden's book The Selfish Gene from 1976.

Marsh

Marsh writes Marsh suspected noted evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins would not agree; Marsh authored a book titled “The Selfish Gene,” after all.